Recent years have seen a surge in plant genome sequencing projects and the comparison
of multiple related individuals. The high degree of genomic variation observed led to the …

The fungal pathogen Botrytis cinerea causes grey mould, a commercially damaging disease
of strawberry. This pathogen affects fruit in the field, storage, transport and market. The …

Haplotype-resolved de novo assembly is the ultimate solution to the study of sequence
variations in a genome. However, existing algorithms either collapse heterozygous alleles …

Abstract Chrysanthemum (Chrysanthemum morifolium Ramat.) is a globally important
ornamental plant with great economic, cultural, and symbolic value. However, research on …

Long-term climate change and periodic environmental extremes threaten food and fuel
security and global crop productivity,–. Although molecular and adaptive breeding strategies …

Polyploidy (genome duplication) is a pivotal force in evolution. However, the interactions
between parental genomes in a polyploid nucleus, frequently involving subgenome …

Abstract The PacBio® HiFi sequencing method yields highly accurate long-read sequencing
datasets with read lengths averaging 10–25 kb and accuracies greater than 99.5%. These …

Coffea arabica, an allotetraploid hybrid of Coffea eugenioides and Coffea canephora, is the
source of approximately 60% of coffee products worldwide, and its cultivated accessions …

Common oat (Avena sativa) is an important cereal crop serving as a valuable source of
forage and human food. Although reference genomes of many important crops have been …

Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) is one of the most important forage crops in the world; however, its
molecular genetics and breeding research are hindered due to the lack of a high-quality …